If you’ve ever wondered what New York City would be like without its subways, look no further. If you replaced the morning rush hour traffic with cars instead of mass transit, it would be a huge nightmare. – from 8:00AM to 8:59 AM on an average Fall day in 2007 the NYC Subway carried 388,802 [...]
Manhattan now has New York City’s first real time bus information as a first step in equipping the city with smart bus stops. Bloomberg and the MTA unveiled eight bus shelters with electronic countdown displays that tell riders just hour many minutes away their bus is. “All 30 buses on the M34 and the M16 [...]
Helena Williams, the MTA’s interim executive director, says that a fare increase on the MTA is possible after bus and subway drivers received an 11.3% pay rise over the next three years. The MTA’s financial plan calls for fare hikes in 2011 and 2013 but doesn’t account for the $350 million cost of the new [...]
The MTA has sold the naming rights to the Atlantic Avenue subway station in Brooklyn to Barclay’s. If a $4 million deal is approved on Wednesday, the nexus of subway stops at Atlantic Avenue, Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn will add an additional name to its already lengthy title: Barclays. Once upon [...]
